Re: redisplay system of emacs

[David Kastrup]

Paul R <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Eli,
>
>>> As many emacs youngsters, I feel that emacs really uses too much
>>> home-made code. Surprisingly, Emacs does not benefit that much from
>>> the free software ecosystem.
>
> Eli> That's a pretty general assessment. Any data points other than the
> Eli> display engine?
>
> Emacs Lisp and all the librairies that emacs hackers had to implement on
> top of it, IOW the 'emacs lisp standard library'.
>
> Since 80ies, many languages appeared, and many of them meet very well
> the requirements to extend a text editor. And because they are
> general-purpose language, they do much more.

So where are all those powerful extensible text editors?

> Designing a language, implementing it, maintaining it, providing a
> large and up to date standard library, is a project on its
> own. Scheme, Ruby or Python come to mind. The latters, at least, come
> with extensive support to parsing, file operations, networking and so
> on.

So where are all those powerful extensible text editors?

-- 
David Kastrup